CVE-2026-8205 Concrete CMS CVE debrief

Who should care

Concrete CMS site owners, administrators, and security teams should care most if they use the Calendar Block or rely on calendar permissions to hide event details. Sites that expose calendar content to different user groups should treat this as a confidentiality issue and verify whether restricted events could be viewed without authorization.

Technical summary

The vulnerability affects Concrete CMS 9.5.0 and below. The NVD record and CVE description indicate that the Calendar Block's action_get_events path fails to enforce a canView authorization check, allowing restricted event details to be disclosed. NVD maps the issue to CWE-425 and assigns CVSS v4.0 6.3 (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N).

Defensive priority

Medium priority. Because the flaw is network-reachable and requires no user interaction or privileges, teams using Concrete CMS calendar features should review and remediate promptly, especially where event confidentiality matters.

Recommended defensive actions

• Review whether your Concrete CMS deployment uses the Calendar Block on affected versions (9.5.0 and below).
• Apply the vendor-recommended remediation referenced in the Concrete CMS 9.5.1 release notes.
• Verify that calendar permissions and access controls still prevent restricted event details from being exposed.
• Check logs and application behavior for unexpected access to calendar event data.
• If calendar data was exposed, assess which events and user groups may have been affected and rotate or reclassify sensitive content as needed.

Evidence notes

The supplied CVE description states that Concrete CMS 9.5.0 and below are vulnerable because action_get_events does not check canView on the calendar, resulting in restricted event details being disclosed. The NVD record provides the CVSS v4.0 vector and lists CWE-425 as a secondary weakness. NVD also references the Concrete CMS 9.5.1 release notes as the vendor source in the supplied corpus.

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